SOR Office Chairs

Developed in 2020, the S.O.R (Scraps of Reupholstery) collection is a radical reinvention of the standard office chair. Born from a collaboration between the studio and designer Inés Sistiaga, this series was specially commissioned by the Machado Muñoz Gallery for the offices of Mo de Movimiento, a multi-award-winning project in Madrid recognized by Dezeen and Frame for its commitment to sustainability and circularity.

The project’s core philosophy, proposed by Inés Sistiaga, focused on engaging with local craftsmanship to reclaim high-value material waste. Upholstery is a craft that handles costly and refined textiles, yet it inevitably generates substantial quantities of remnants—scraps of varying shapes and sizes that neighborhood artisans often struggle to discard. The design team gathered these unique patches and meticulously sewed them together to create a new, vibrant skin for second-hand office chair structures.

By applying this artisanal "patchwork" to a series of 16 different wheeled chairs, the studio transformed ubiquitous, practical, and often underrated industrial objects into unique pieces of functional art. Each chair in the collection possesses its own personality, defined by the specific textile combinations and the original ergonomics of the recovered base. This approach allowed the team to deliver a highly functional product without sacrificing technical performance, while at the same time dignifying the materials and the local labor involved.

As part of the "collections" scale, S.O.R stands as a testament to the studio's "pro-cycling" dogma. It challenges the aesthetic monotony of corporate environments and demonstrates how the creative revaluation of "leftovers" can result in a diverse, tactile, and deeply contextualized furniture series.